FabSwingers.com forum: World Book Day

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Happy WBD 2016

What's your favourite novel?

I love reading and can always be found buried in a good read especially in the bath or on the beach.

Catcher In the Rye, The World According to Garp and Galapagos are among my favs.

I'm currently reading High Rise by JG Ballard.

For the avoidance of doubt - watching a movie with the subtitles on DOES NOT qualify as reading the book

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Are you all too busy Fabbing to read?

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By *urlyShirtyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Love Catcher In the Rye too, re-read it every few years. Also a big fan of Wonderland Avenue, Brighton Rock & A Scanner Darkly.

Just started A God in Ruins, good so far.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guy Sajer - The Forgotten Soldier

George Robert Elford - Devils Guard

Simon Murray - Legionnaire

non fiction excellent reads that you wont be able to put down until finished

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine was always lord of the rings when i was younger (about 9 or 10), then it became Catcher in the rye - which I've just had to buy a new copy of as mine is wrecked lol I don't tend to read as much now, became very lazy with it and have a very short attention span.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Great Gatsby (I've never seen the movie)

Midnight Express

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Peter Pan

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

The Kite Runner

The translations of Homer's Odyssey poem

Buddha Da

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The Great Gatsby (I've never seen the movie)

Midnight Express

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Peter Pan

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

The Kite Runner

The translations of Homer's Odyssey poem

Buddha Da

I forgot about The Great Gatsby - I loved that book. Also the Winter of our Discontent ??

I'm not brave enough for Homers Odyessy but it's on my shelf.....waiting and dusty ??

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By *onto the 3rdMan
over a year ago

Blantyre

Catch 22?

Depends on what mood I'm in. Fantasy sci fi.....right thru to pulp like the reacher stuff.

Trying to make a point of reading at least 3 classics a year tho.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seems everyone only reads classic novels lol

Right now I'm loving Tom wood's "Victor the assassin" novels...nothing high brow, just some good old violence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always have something on the go. I read until the cows come home.

My fav book ever is probably to kill a mockingbird. Catcher in the rye comes close second.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oor wullie

The broons

Couple of classics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oor wullie

The broons

Couple of classics

I used to deliver them with my Sunday papers years ago, loved reading them before the folk they were meant for, still got whichever one was out for Xmas though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't just red classics I'm not sure Buddha Da would come under that. It's just they are the books that have touched me in some way that I can think of off the top of my head. I'll read the back of a toilet duck bottle.

As for Homer that was more just from school and Latin class. Not really sitting through the Illiad and Aenied most nights.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For me, The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Alone In Berlin, by Hans Fallada, Guernica, by Dave Boling, and the traditional dystopian/weirdo ones, 1984, Brave New World & Catcher.

I have also read Homer.

And Bart, Marge, Lisa & Maggie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hated 1984!

Loved Shakespeare's stories but hated having to read them.

I'm a Philistine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a Philistine"

Are you claiming asylum?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stephen King - The Stand, It, Needful Things.

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By *urlyShirtyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Guess I've got to add Gatsby & Brave New World to the re-read list...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A few crackers being mentioned.

I may to update my favs list - forgot about 1984, Animal Farm and Needful Things.

I loved Stephen King was i was younger but struggled with the Dark Tower novels - I really wanted to love them

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By *anSusieCouple
over a year ago

Midlothian

Guess my fav.books are all those I have re-read....a number of times!!To name a few(I'm a real bookworm+have to many which I love) and show the mix:Pride+Prejudice,Game of Thrones(the whole serie),It,Touching the Void,Everest,Harry Potter,Twilight,The Lord of the rings,Birdman(Mo Hayder).....at the moment reading 'Wild'one of the few books I only discovered after seeing the film,normaly it's the book 1st

....ohhh if only I could afford my own huge Libary

(susie)

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By *argaidMan
over a year ago

glasgow

I couldn't even come close to picking a favourite.

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By *eterjamesmcMan
over a year ago

glasgow

Paul Johnston body politic and subsequent books. Chris brookmyre Denise Minha louise Welsh Peter May Anne cleeves and that's just Scottish writers. Banks goes without saying, sci fi included.we should organise a book club on fab, we could even invite the hound!

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Pretty much all of Chuck Palahniuk's work. Likewise for Joe Hill.

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

And for a classic, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

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By *eterjamesmcMan
over a year ago

glasgow

High fidelity may be my favourite though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" we could even invite the hound!"

The hound?

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By *eterjamesmcMan
over a year ago

glasgow

He was in tv series called the book club.

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By *ooddoggyMan
over a year ago

town

Just started a book about antigravity wow can't put it down

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